Knit fabric.



Patented lune 27, I899.

J. IWATERFIELD.

KNIT FABRIC.

(Application filed Nov. 28, 1898.)

No Model.)

- NITE STATES PATENT FFICgE JonN WATERFIELD, or PROVIDENCE, RHODEISLAND.

KNIT FABRIC.

SPECIFICATION forming part er Letters-Patent no. 627,945, dated June 27,1899.

Original applicationfiled June 28, 1898, Serial No. 684,686. Divided and this application filed November 28, 1898 Serial No.

697,605. (No model.) I

To all whom it may concern: in a transverse direction, just as the warp Be it known that 1, JOHN XVATERFIELD, a threads prevent longitudinal stretching. citizen of the United States of America, and o are the knitted or looped weft-threads, aresidentof Providence, in the Stateof Rhode which are laid on the opposite side of the Island, but atpresent residing at London,Engwarp-threads to that on which the fillingland,have invented an Improved KnitFabric, threads lie. They alternate with the fillingof which the following is a specification. threads and pass through the fabric from one This application is adivision of my applicaface to the other, thus serving to tie'or knit tion filed June 28, 1898, Serial No. 684,686. the other threads together. On the face or 10 This invention relates to an improved texfront of the fabric, Fig. 1, the said threads tile fabric intended to resemble ordinary form loops 0 between alternate pairs of the woven cloths. warp-threads, the legs of the loops lyin g paralhe class of fabrics to whichthe invention lel, or approximately so,with the warp-threads, more particularly has reference is that havbut on the outer side of the filling-threads,

15 ing longitudinal or warp threads and transwhich latter are thus firmly held between verse or weft threads, the latter being divided the warpthreads and the said legs of the into two sets, termed, respectively, plain loops. In the fabric shown in the drawings weft or fillingthreads and knitted orlooped each loop is of such a length that its legs exweft-threads. tend over two filling-threads and engage the 20 According to the said invention the loops corresponding loop in the next knittingof the knitted weft-thread instead of being thread but one. It will be seen that the loops arranged as heretofore, so that they alternate in one row break joint with those in the next regularly with the warp-threads, are disposed row, and thus give the diagonal appearance to so that they miss or skip some of these threads. the fabric. In other words, the loops 0 of-the -2 5 Thus in a fabric intended to resemble an or-- threads 0 follow each other across the fabric dinary diagonal the loops in one'row might in diagonal lines, and thus give a pattern be arranged to lie between alternate pairs of similar to that of an ordinary woven diagonal. warp-threads, while those 'of the next row Woven diagonals of this kind may have the would lie between the intervening pairs. loops arranged to run either to the right or to 0 Consequently the loops .of one row would the leftor maybemade upofleft-handedwork break joint, as it were, with those of the adand right-handed work alternating with each jacent rows and the desired diagonal pattern other, or checkerwise, as in some woven fabwould be obtained. rics. To this end the loops of the knitted An example of a fabric such as referred to weft'threads may be arranged between every 5 in the preceding paragraph is shown in the third pair of warp-threads or otherwise inannexed drawings, in.which stead of between alternate pairs of warp- Figure 1 illustrates, diagrammatically and threads, as in the example given above; considerably enlarged, the front, and Fig. 2 Fabrics made as above described can adthe back, of the improved textile fabric, Fig. vantageously be produced on the circular- 4o 3 being a longitudinal section and Fig. 4 a knitting loom forming the subject ofa pend- 9o transverse section. ing application for patent by me.

a are the warp-thtc'aads-that is to say, the Having now described my invention, what threads which run longitudinally 'of the fab- I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Pat ric-and b are the plain weft or filling threads. out, is--- 5 These latter extend transversely across the l. The method of producingaknitted diag fabric and are quite straight-that is to say, oual cloth which consists in laying straight they are not bent in and out between the filling-threads across one side of a set of lonwarp-threads, but lie straight across them gitudinal threads, laying knitting-threads on one side thereof only. In this way these across the other side of said longitudinal 50 threads serve to prevent the fabric stretching threads formingloops in each knitting-thread 10o before the succeeding one is laid in place, such loops lying between alternate pairs of warp-threads and then forming loops in the said succeeding thread, these latter loops lying between the interveningwarp-'threadr-i which were missed by the former loops, substantially as described.

2. In a knit cloth, the combination of Iongitudinal or Warp threads, plain transverse threads on one side ofsaid longitudinal threads, and knit transverse threads succeeding each other in regular order on the opposite side of said longitudinal threads, such knit threads being arranged in sets of which the corresponding threads of each set have their loops arranged in the same way, such loops'howevenlying between the loops of the other thread or threads in the same set, substantially as described.

U 3. A'knitted cloth consisting of longitudinal or warp threads, straight transverse threads extending across one side of said longitudinal threads, and knit transverse threads extending across theother side of said. threads, each alternate knit thread having its loops arranged in the same way and alternating with the loops of the'intervenin g knit threads, sub stantially as described.

4-. In a knitted diagonal cloth, the combination of warp or longitudinal threads, straight transverse filling-threads all on one side of the warp-threads, knitting-threads arranged on the opposite side of the'warp-th reads mid way between the filIing-threads and loops in said knitting-threads extendingthrough the fab-' ric over two of the filiing-t-hreads and engaging the next corresponding loop, substantially as described.

In witnesswhereof I have hereunto signed my name in the presence of two subscribing 4 witnesses.

J OHN WATEREIELD.

Witnesses:

GEORGE ERNEST MINTERN,

WILMER I/MATTHJEWB HARRIs,

It is hereby certified that Letters Patent No 627,945, granted June '27, 1899,- uponthe applicamion of John Water-flew, of Providence, Rhodle Island, for an i nprovement in Knit Fabrics, were erroneously issued to said Waterfield as sole ownei' of said-inventinn; whereas said; Lefiztars Patent slwuld have been issued to said John Wdmjfield and William Badwcia and Heavy Baldwin Edwards, of Londofi; Engla nd, Said Badcock and Edwards being assignms of two-thirds interest, as shown by the record. of assignments in this comes; mid, (aha-6 the said Letters Paiiza nt shoml tl be read with this correction themin .firhmia th s warm; may confarm to the. macmdl' of film case in the Patent @fice.

Signd, comifimmigmi, @aah-zd; this 11th flay of July, A. D.,-1899. I 519%. WEBS DA,

I mm ewemry of the I. Counivemigwfi: I

0 H. Damn,

@ammissioner f .Patemm 

